Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MD0000779
LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY - UNION, Union Bridge, MD: NPDES MD0000779 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties
- Administratively continuedPermit status
- MinorDischarger class
- 9Pollutants under a numeric limit
- 5Pollutants with an effluent exceedance
LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY - UNION, held by LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY, holds NPDES permit MD0000779, which discharges to Double Pipe Creek. EPA’s file records it issued September 26, 2013 and expiring October 31, 2018. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.
Identity
| Facility as filed | LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY - UNION |
|---|---|
| Permittee as filed | LEHIGH CEMENT COMPANY |
| NPDES ID | MD0000779 |
| Permit status | Administratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued) |
| Permit type | Individual permit |
| Discharger class | Minor discharger |
| Facility type | Not a publicly owned treatment works |
| Issued | September 26, 2013 |
| Expiration date | October 31, 2018 |
| Issuing agency | Maryland Department of The Environment |
| Address | Union Bridge, MD 21791 |
| Receiving water | DOUBLE PIPE CREEK |
| Subwatershed | Middle Little Pipe Creek (HUC 020700090402) |
| SIC | 3241 – Cement, Hydraulic |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.
Effluent limits and exceedances
- 15Pollutants on file
- 9Under a numeric limit
- 15With a violation of any kind
- 5With an effluent exceedance
An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.
| Pollutant or measure | Limits | Violations, any kind | Effluent exceedances | Latest exceedance | Largest exceedance, as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solids, total suspended | 18 | 172 | 20 | June 30, 2007 | 560% over the limit |
| Temperature, water deg. fahrenheit | 0 | 32 | 2 | September 30, 2003 | 20% over the limit |
| Temp. diff. between up/down stream deg. F | 2 | 21 | 2 | September 30, 2014 | 2,147,483,650% over the limit |
| pH | 16 | 113 | 1 | September 30, 2016 | |
| Solids, settleable | 0 | 14 | 1 | March 31, 2004 | 302% over the limit |
| Nitrogen, organic total [as N] | 0 | 208 | 0 | ||
| Ammonia nitrogen, total, [as N] 30 day | 0 | 208 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, Kjeldahl, total [as N] | 24 | 140 | 0 | ||
| Nitrite + Nitrate total [as N] | 32 | 108 | 0 | ||
| Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant | 12 | 106 | 0 | ||
| Nitrogen, total [as N] | 32 | 86 | 0 | ||
| Phosphorus, total [as P] | 32 | 76 | 0 | ||
| Flow | 4 | 37 | 0 | ||
| Turbidity | 0 | 26 | 0 | ||
| Petrol hydrocarbons, total recoverable | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.
Inspections, violations and enforcement
- 0Single-event violations
EPA’s single-event violation file, as loaded, holds no violation for NPDES MD0000779.
Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.
Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.
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Figures from EPA’s ICIS-NPDES download, loaded October 14, 2026.